Here's where I need all you Enermax owners attention. The Psu sits in a solid "L" shaped hanger and this is odd for a couple reasons. 1) the dual fan enermaxs will have to be mounted upside down and 2) the rear of the case where the psu attaches will only let you mount the enermax upside down. Look at the pic and you'll see what I mean. You could easily mod it to fit the right way with your enermax by unscrewing the psu plate in rear and flipping it around and then cutting a circle into the "L" hanger above the cpu. i would do that but one thing to think about before you cut up your $250 aluminum case: Will you be using that kind of psu forever? I mean that exact dual fan psu?...hmm.....But a good mod will survive the times. One thing about the current way I have it set up is if I added the two upper 80mm fans they would be directly above/front of the enermax intake fan. Now this could be good or bad. It will either cause a nice strong flow of air enter the enermax as the two 80's pull air to that upper rear section of the case.....or it will disrupt the flow somehow. I wanna think it will help cause a powerful external exhaust like this (with the 2x80mm's) as long as the 2x80's you install back there are of decent power.

Bottom Line: Is there gonna be enough air getting pushed/pulled up there to supply the three fans with enough air? ...Who knows?...:-)

Now, if you're using a "normal" psu where it intakes extra air thru the rear of the psu (toward the cd drives) them this will be perfect for you in stock form. Its just the Enermax users that will have to make a few decisions on what they wanna do.

 

 

All the drive cages on this beauty are also toolless and utilize those high quality thumbscrews which makes system assembly and dis-assembly very quick and effortless. All the 3.5" and 5.25" drive bay covers are also very high quality aluminum and they snap on and off with ease. It's amazing how machined to perfection they actually are. Shows the attention to detail that went into this case. So just undo 2 thumbscrews and the big 6 ( yes SIX!! ) Hard Drive cage slides right out the side , or just undo 3 thumbscrews to have your entire 3.5" drive cage pull out the front of the case. It doesnt get much easier than this and you've got a built in hd cooler with this setup! Excellent! Overall so far I've found the aluminum rigidity to be very good. I'm quite impressed with this case so far. Very solid and has a precision feel to it.

Window Kit Installation
Now that we've checked out some of the goodies inside, Let's take care of getting that window installed. The PCMods.com server window kit they designed for this case was very easy to install with a little bit of patience. First off, you can see how perfectly the window is cut to the case cutout. This by far is the hardest thing of doing a window yourself if your going to use the channel molding. The window has to be at least damn near perfect to fit correctly. But the window comes to you perfectly cut and the molding is of exact size for the window. Putting the molding on is pretty straight-forward. There's a small and smaller groove in the molding. The smaller groove attaches to the aluminum panel and the slightly larger groove is for the window to sit in.

 

 

Now after I attached all the molding I decided to peel back about an inch or so all the way around both sides of the protective paper so I wouldnt be putting the paper in the molding along with the window and also by doing this I could still leave most of the window protectant paper on while i was installing it. Simple Idea that gives piece of mind when handling the window as much as you will be while installing it. Make sure you get a hard blunt (prefereably rounded but thin) object when trying to fit the window in the molding. If you don't you'll be screaming in minutes....hehe...Cuz the window is designed to be very secure once installed there isn't alot of play here. So you need to start a corner and go from there. Don't expect it to just whoosh right in...cuz it won't. It'll take you a few minutes to get it in there snug. I used the bottle opener tool on my Leatherman tool and that worked like a charm! (*use #2,084 = plexi window installer) :-P

 

After you get the window settled in the molding, go around and double check the the molding is totally opened up over the edges and its got a good bite all the way around.You should have a even sized gap on the inside of the molding where you'll next apply the locking strip for the molding. That said, you go ahead and put the locking strip in the inside groove. Stretching it a little helps it get firmly into the groove and it will expand when you release it in the channel. When I finished putting the locking strip in , there was about 4 inches left over. Just snip it with a pair of scissors. Doesn't have to be perfect as noone will see it and you've got most of it in there so i actually cut it about a half inch short so i could have a spot to pull it out if I needed to. Now that it's all done you can go ahead and remove the protective film on the window and install the side panel as normal. You now have a perfect custom designed window installed in the case.

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